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Not to add insult to injury, and i know its a small sample at this point, but we traded away a nice assortment of young arms for a pitcher we cant even get into games in situations he excels at. I'm sure Linebrink could help this team tremendously, but the crew right now cant put him in a position to help. Here's the small sample so far for what we gave up:

Joe Thatcher (major leagues, padres):

Aug 14	COL	W 8-0	-	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	1		0	0	0	5.0	0.00
Aug 12	@ CIN	W 10-4	-	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	3.0	0.00
Jul 31	ARI	L 0-4	-	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	1		0	0	0	2.0	0.00
Jul 27	@ HOU	W 9-4	-	0.1	1	3	0	0	1	0		0	0	0	1.1	0.00
Jul 26	@ HOU	L 1-7	-	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	0	0	1.0	0.00
Total				5.0	3	3	0	0	2	3		0	0	0	0	0.00

boy, 5 scoreless innings from a reliever, we certainly couldnt use that...

Will Inman (AA San Antonio)

Aug 01	@COR	1	0	1.50	0	6.0	3	1	5	4
Aug 06	FRI	1	0	1.23	0	7.1	3	1	1	9
Aug 12	@ARK	1	0	3.60	0	5.0	3	2	4	2
Totals		3	0	1.96	0	18.1	9	4	10	15

1.96 era, 1.00 whip, 3-0 record, dont need that do we?

Steve Garrison (A Lake Elsinore)

Date	OPP	W	L	ERA	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO
Jul 29	@SJO	0	1	2.57	0	7.0	3	2	1	5
Aug 03	LNC	0	0	1.13	0	8.0	3	1	1	7
Aug 09	@INL	1	0	1.29	0	7.0	5	1	0	3
Aug 14	RCQ	1	0	0.00	0	7.0	5	0	0	5
Totals		2	1	1.24	0	29.0	16	4	2	20

1.24 era, 2-1 record, 20 k's and 2 walks, good ratio, and every start at least 7 innings, we can barely get 5 out of ours.

I know, again its a small sample, and the competition is no where near what the crew is facing, but at this point, considering we cant even reap the benefits of the player we got in return, i'd say we got "Melvined". I hope in October i can look back at this post and criticize myself for underestimating the impact that Linebrink had on this team.